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NEW DELHI: India today offered Bangladesh expertise in civil nuclear sector and outer space during a meeting between their Foreign Ministers but the meet could not make any major headway on emotive issues of Land Boundary Agreement, Teesta water sharing and extradition of ULFA leader Anup Chetia. During the third Consultative Commission (JCC) meeting, jointly chaired by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her Bangladeshi counterpart Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali, the two sides also agreed on various proposals to increase and enhance connectivity between the two countries including a trial run of Dhaka-Shillong Bus Service by 2014.

DHAKA: Separatist ULFA leader Anup Chetia , lodged in Dhaka jail for the past 17 years, will be extradited to India "very soon", Bangladesh's top Home Ministry official said as the Home secretary-level talks between the two countries ended here today. "We have expressed our willingness to return him...he will be returned very soon," Home Secretary Mozammel Haque Khan told reporters after meeting his Indian counterpart Anil Goswami . His comments came a day after the official-level meeting of the two countries decided that Chetia would be returned under a special mechanism beyond an existing extradition treaty.

DHAKA: Bangladesh may extradite separatist ULFA leader Anup Chetia to India under a special mechanism beyond an existing extradition treaty, officials said today ahead of the bilateral meeting of home secretaries here. "He (Chetia) could be sent back to India under a mechanism beyond the extradition treaty," additional secretary of Bangladesh's Home ministry Kamaluddin Ahmed told newsmen. He added that Chetia issue had nothing to do with the case of Nur Hossain, a Bangladeshi and main suspect of multiple murders who was arrested by West Bengal police recently as he fled the country to evade justice.

NEW DELHI: The Home Ministry is examining a fresh proposal by the CBI for the extradition of Purulia arms drops case prime accused Kim Davy , the Lok Sabha was informed today. Former Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had on April 22 approved sending of a fresh extradition request regarding Davy to the Denmark government, Minister of State for External Affairs Gen VK Singh said in a written reply. Following the decision, DIG and Head of Branch, CBI (SCB)

NEW DELHI: India and the UK today decided to soon launch negotiations for civil nuclear cooperation during a meeting between the External Affairs Minister and her British counterpart, who pushed for sale of its Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) despite its Eurofighter Typhoon losing out to France's Rafale. During her "wide-ranging and extensive" talks with UK Foreign Secretary of State William Hague, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj demanded extradition of British citizen Raymond Varley, accused of being a part of an international paedophile ring and abusing children in Goa in the 80s and 90s. Hague said his government will look into it. In a more than two-hour-long meeting, the two sides also discussed ways to enhance trade ties with India inviting British companies to invest in its Bangalore-Mumbai Economic Corridor infrastructure project.

DHAKA: Bangladesh today said India has agreed to deport Nur Hossain, who was arrested in Kolkata last month and is wanted in connection with the killing of seven people in the suburbs of the capital. "India has agreed to extradite Nur Hossain," Foreign Minister A H Mahmood Ali told Parliament while replying to a question by a lawmaker of the main opposition Jatiya Party . He said India's assurance came after the request was made to Sushma Swaraj during her maiden stand-alone official tour here as the External Affairs Minister.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has sought extradition of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah from Afghanistan and dismantling of the militant group's hideouts in Kunar and Nooristan provinces. Mahmood Khan Achakzai , a renowned Pushtun leader, made the request for the extradition on behalf of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif when he met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Wednesday, The Express Tribune reported. The foreign office confirmed that Achakzai, accompanied by foreign secretary Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry , visited Afghanistan as a special envoy of the Prime Minister to seek Kabul's cooperation against terrorism.

DHAKA: Bangladesh today said it has sought India's response to its extradition request of a multiple-murder suspect who was arrested in Kolkata last week. "We have written to the Indian authorities, and are waiting for their response," Bangaldesh's junior foreign minister Shahriar Alam said. Nur Hossain, a local leader of ruling Awami League who was arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of West Bengal Police along with three other accomplices, is wanted in Bangladesh for killing seven people in suburban Narayanganj about two months ago. The seven people were kidnapped by assailants from the suburban river port city on April 27 and their nearly decomposed bodies were retrieved from the Shitalakya River on May 1. The incident had sparked a massive public outcry as the families of the victims alleged that several personnel of elite anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)

MUMBAI: Saying that the extradited gangster Abu Salem was not "a superhuman" who would flee when several policemen were guarding him, the special TADA court here today granted his plea that police should not handcuff him while ferrying him between the court and the jail. Salem last month filed an application before the court, taking exception to the handcuffing. "He is not a superhuman," said judge G A Sanap, allowing Salem's plea. Earlier, the court had questioned the Navi Mumbai police's argument, where they had said they had intelligence reports saying that he could flee.